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by StessCo on 1/2/17Hard Rock Stadium - MiamiSuch a nail biter but the best team definitely dominated!
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Capital One Orange Bowl History
Played annually since the mid-1930s, the Orange Bowl is the second-oldest bowl game in the country behind the Rose Bowl. In fact, it was created as a sort of Florida counterpart to Pasadena's Rose Bowl Game and Rose Parade, a way of drumming up tourist dollars in Miami during the Great Depression. After years in its namesake stadium, in 1996 the Orange Bowl moved just north of the city to Hard Rock Stadium, a 65,000-capacity facility in Miami Gardens, Florida.
Today the Capital One Orange Bowl is included in the New Year's Six, the six bowl games that host the College Football Playoff semifinals on a rotating basis. The Orange Bowl has billed itself "The Home of the ACC Champion" since the 2006 season, and the arrangement with the conference will last at least until 2025. The SEC, Big Ten and Notre Dame are so-called secondary tie-ins.
The game has always been one of the crown jewels of the bowl season. The first bowl game ever televised live in prime time was the 1965 Orange Bowl, in which the Texas Longhorns snuck past the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, 21-17. Other highlights include William "Refrigerator" Perry and his Clemson Tigers teammates stoning the Nebraska Cornhuskers in 1982, 22-15, winning a national championship in the process; the Miami Hurricanes claiming a title of their own in 1984 by the fingertips of Ken Calhoun, who deflected a pass that would've given Nebraska a two-point conversion and a victory; Notre Dame's Raghib "Rocket" Ismail in 1991 returning a punt 92 yards for an apparent winning touchdown over Colorado, only to have the return called back because of a clipping penalty. If history is your thing, the last meeting between coaching legends Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden was at the 2006 Orange Bowl, where Paterno's Penn State team edged Bowden's Florida State squad in three overtimes, 26-23. And if points are your thing, the bowl's 2012 edition saw West Virginia put up 70 of them against Clemson.
Such a nail biter but the best team definitely dominated!
Great game. FSU Seminoles - the underdogs are victors
great time great seats nice stadium perfect weather and best team won
Thank you Michigan for a great game. Fans were cheering for their teams and not trashing each other. Great Stadium
The new stadium is incredible. Our seats were perfect, right at the 25 yard line behind the Noles bench. It was my XMas gift from my Dad and a night I will never forget.
The stadium is great and the events were a lot of fun. The food selection is very good. Too bad my team lost. The only caution about Hard Rock Stadium - it is out on its own and the only real parking is their lots. The exiting flow was awful - with poor exit merging patterns. Took over an hour to get just out of parking lot.
Loved the cole swindell concert before game. Nice stadium. Too much and too loud of pumped in music during the game. It's a college game. You are supposed to be able to hear the bands playing.
Overall good experience. Some drunk fans made it uncomfortable
Pretty amazing New Years. First Orange Bowl win for the Jackets in decades. Exceptional seats. The option worked almost flawlessly. MSU gave a great fight. It was a magical night for this Georgia Tech alum!
Venue was awesome and so was the game!!! Location of the seats were great - club section!!
Not a family event. Disappointted with fans language
The overall atmosphere was very festive and loose. There were no uptight police or fun spoilers. They allowed for grills and coolers in the lot outside of the stadium! Lots of fun people. My only disappointment was that I paid a lot of money for nosebleed seats due to it was all that was supposedly available the first hour of ticket sales. I paid $112 each for two tickets that could have been bought on StubHub for $40. When I got to the stadium, they were practically giving tickets away! I'll never prebuy again.
Not in the class of the Fiesta Bowl. Pregame was much less of a party than what was offered in Phoenix. Miami traffic was a catastrophe. Beautiful break from Columbus weather.
Not the ending we had hoped for, but it was a good game up till the end
Stadium very easy to navigate. Parking was poor. Concessions were great. Travel to and from stadium was well organized.
Even tho Ohio State lost, we had the best time at Sunlife Stadium. We had club seats at the 50 yard line! Nearby first class bathrooms!! And fantastic choices of food from gluten free to ice cream dishes to great desserts!! Best time ever at a football game!
I wish I would of been told what side of the field they were on so I wasn't sitting with the opposing sides fans it would of been more enjoyable to sit with the team I was cheering for
I will buy my bowl tickets through the school next time and not through ticketmaster. While our row was all Clemson fans, we were clearly in a WVA fan zone. From the moment we arrived to the game, WVA fans were confrontational, taunting us, and flat out saying nasty things to anyone in orange. During the game, the WVA fans behind us cursed nonstop, even when asked to refrain from their vulgar talk. During half time, they started throwing a football around in our section, The Orange Bowl attendent in our section did nothing. The WVA fans in our section were overloaded with beer and one fell down injuring another fan. We left the game early, not because of the score, but because we no longer felt safe. We needed to get out of there before all the drunk drivers were on the road. From all the games we've been to, we've never seen such rude fans. I will never go to another bowl game where WVA is invited, and like I said, never buy bowl tickets through ticketmaster again.
A classy event that given the opportunity, you should try.
Seats were better than anticipated. Great endzone action.